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Summary

  • TripPlannerViewModel.handlePlanResponse now posts a new public notification, Notifications.tripPlanEmpty, whenever a plan response carries an error (userInfo["reason"] == "error") or zero itineraries ("empty"). itinerariesUpdated is still posted only on success, so hosts had no way to detect "no trips found".
  • The notification carries the planned endpoints under tripPlanEmptyOriginLatitudeKey / ...OriginLongitudeKey / ...DestinationLatitudeKey / ...DestinationLongitudeKey so a host can react without re-reading the view model.
  • Posting lives in a small TripPlannerViewModel+EmptyPlan.swift extension to stay within the SwiftLint type and file length limits.

OneBusAway iOS uses this for the GTFS-Flex "On-demand options" fallback: when fixed-route planning finds nothing, the app probes both endpoints for on-demand zones and offers a call-to-book card. The iOS branch currently pins this branch of OTPKit and will switch back to main once this merges.

Test plan

  • TripPlannerViewModelTests: four new tests cover the error case, the empty case, the success case not posting, and the endpoint keys; 43 tests pass.
  • swiftlint lint --strict clean.
  • Reviewer: confirm the notification name and key strings are acceptable public API.

Review notes

  • The repo's pre-push hook names an iPhone 17 Pro simulator with no OS; on a machine with several iOS runtimes xcodebuild reports an ambiguous destination and the hook fails. The push for this branch was made with SKIP=xcode-tests after running the suite manually. Pinning the hook's destination (an OS version or a device id) would fix it; that belongs in a separate PR.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Trip-planning results now provide a notification when a request fails or returns no itineraries, identifying whether the outcome was an error or an empty plan.
    • When available, the notification includes the origin and destination coordinates from the original request.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Notifications are suppressed for canceled or reset requests, and responses containing itineraries do not trigger an empty-plan notification.

Hosts embedding the planner had no way to learn that a request came
back with nothing usable: itinerariesUpdated fires only on success,
and a server error such as PATH_NOT_FOUND only shows an alert. Post a
new notification in both cases, with the reason and the planned
origin and destination in userInfo, so a host can offer alternatives
such as on-demand services between those points.
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The trip planner now posts an empty-plan notification for error responses and successful responses without itineraries. The notification includes the reason and the request’s endpoint coordinates. The planner cancels previous requests and ignores canceled results.

Changes

Trip plan empty notifications

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define and post empty-plan notifications
OTPKit/Sources/OTPKit/Core/Notifications.swift, OTPKit/Sources/OTPKit/Presentation/ViewModel/TripPlannerViewModel+EmptyPlan.swift, OTPKit/Sources/OTPKit/Presentation/ViewModel/TripPlannerViewModel.swift
The notification defines reason and endpoint-coordinate keys. The view model posts it for errors and successful responses with no itineraries. It cancels previous requests and ignores canceled results.
Test empty-plan notification cases
OTPKit/Tests/TripPlannerViewModelTests.swift
Tests check notification reasons and endpoint coordinates, including the original request endpoints when the selection changes. They also check that reset during a request and responses with itineraries do not post a notification.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: brentonmdunn

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e4d7c

The change adds a public notification for plans that return an error or no itineraries. It includes the request's endpoints and suppresses notifications from superseded or reset requests. No merge-blocking risk is evident.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e4d7c

Request-bound coordinates and cancellation checks improve stale-response handling. However, a synchronous reset during an existing notification can still be followed by an obsolete empty-plan notification. The demonstrated scope is app-local; downstream fallback handling was not available to assess.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: An empty response posts itinerariesUpdated before tripPlanEmpty. A synchronous observer can call TripPlanner.reset(), canceling the task and clearing the planner, yet the old handler still emits tripPlanEmpty with the cleared request's endpoints. This breaks lifecycle ownership and can initiate obsolete downstream fallback work after dismissal. Ordinary cancellation before response handling is protected; delivery across the two notification steps is not.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is precise endpoint data delivered to in-process observers of the injected center, which defaults to the shared center. External host forwarding, retention, and fallback-service exposure cannot be established from the available implementation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The event is posted with object nil and contains no planner identifier or unique request token. NotificationCenter selection provides delivery scoping, but the payload itself does not establish sender or request authority.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Cancellation contains ordinary late completions but does not make the two terminal notifications atomic against synchronous host callbacks. A reset between them can leave cleared planner state followed by an event authorizing work for obsolete endpoints.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Preserve request-generation ownership through terminal event delivery and revalidate it after synchronous observer callbacks. For hosts with multiple planners or asynchronous fallback work, explicit planner/request identity would also support rejection of obsolete outcomes.
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In @OTPKit/Sources/OTPKit/Presentation/ViewModel/TripPlannerViewModel.swift:
- Line 298: In the response-handling flow in TripPlannerViewModel, determine
whether response.plan?.itineraries is empty before posting itinerariesUpdated,
then use that captured result to decide whether to post tripPlanEmpty.

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@OTPKit/Sources/OTPKit/Presentation/ViewModel/TripPlannerViewModel+EmptyPlan.swift:
- Line 17: Update the postTripPlanEmpty call and helper to use the origin and
destination captured by the completed fetchPlan request, rather than the current
selected endpoints; use those request coordinates for both endpoint key pairs so
the notification matches the plan result.

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No issues found. Checked for bugs and CLAUDE.md compliance.

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- tripPlanEmpty now carries the coordinates of the request that produced
  the result, not the current selection, which may have changed in flight.
- Classify the response as empty before posting itinerariesUpdated so an
  observer cannot change the outcome.
- Cancel an in-flight plan when a new one starts or the planner resets, so
  a stale response neither overwrites state nor notifies the host.
- Expose the reason values as tripPlanEmptyReasonError / ...Empty.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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